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USAID and the United States to the Rescue, a Success Story in Peru

When I was an LDS missionary in Peru in 1970, I lived in a poor ‘pueblo joven’ community to the north of Trujillo for six months. It was…Continue reading on Medium »

Protecting Nutrition Security in Rwanda amid USAID crisis

From receiving approximately $12.7 billion from USAID grants in 2024, to the slashing and the cancelling of USAID programs in 2026, Africa faces reductions in multiple life-saving...

USAID has $19B to close out agency. Critics push to use funds to save lives

The shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has told Congress it has $19 billion in funds to cover costs associated with closing out the programs it terminated...

USAID has $19B to close out agency. Critics push to use funds to save lives

The shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has told Congress it has $19 billion in funds to cover costs associated with closing out the programs it terminated...

How fired USAID staffers are keeping the agency’s work going

Project Resource Optimization matches defunded USAID projects with new donors, allowing the lights to stay on as American foreign aid retreats. 

Uganda sees spike in disease-related deaths after elimination of USAID

In 2025, the Trump administration dissolved the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Days later, an exemption for "life-saving humanitarian assistance"...

Trump officials urge other countries to join ‘trade over aid’ push

US calls free-market capitalism ‘surest path to prosperity’ and seeks to forgo direct aid to developing countriesMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Trump administration has moved...

UN Agencies Stonewalling U.S. Probe As Links to Hamas Surface in Scrutiny of Aid Programs

U.S. pledges $1.8 billion more for U.N. humanitarian aid even as it's cut foreign assistance overall

The Trump administration on Thursday announced $1.8 billion more toward U.N. humanitarian aid, saying it will be earmarked for lifesaving aid to victims of natural disasters, famin...

U.S. pledges $1.8 billion more for U.N. humanitarian aid even as it's cut foreign assistance overall

The Trump administration on Thursday announced $1.8 billion more toward U.N. humanitarian aid, saying it will be earmarked for lifesaving aid to victims of natural disasters, famin...

UN welcomes $1.8 billion US boost for humanitarian operations

An additional $1.8 billion in US humanitarian funding will allow the United Nations and its partners to expand emergency relief operations reaching millions of people worldwide, as...

'America First' aid policy reshapes how U.S. delivers global health assistance

Since the dismantling of USAID, the Trump administration has been revamping aid policies, focusing on smaller deals with recipient governments. Countries receiving American aid wil...

Insecurity: US to review aid, humanitarian assistance to Nigeria

The US government is moving to place stricter conditions on financial assistance to Nigeria, with the Hous

Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying.

When Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, went looking for government agencies to axe last year, one of its first targets was the US Agency for International D...